Method for use in the manufacture of shoes.



E. F. WYLlE.

METHOD FOR USE IN THE MANUFACTURE .OF SHOES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB-23. 1915.

1 16939., Patented Jan. 25, 1916.

WUVESSESI m5 COLUMB IA PMNDGRAPH :0. WASHINGTON. n. c.

ENTTED TATE PATENT @lElElEQ EMERSON F. WYLIE, OF BROCKTON,MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, OF PATERSON,NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

METHOD USE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. as, rare,

Original application filed October 19,1910, Serial No. 587,944. Dividedand this application filed February To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that I, EMERSON F. WVYLIE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brockton, in the county of Plymouth and State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Methods for Use inthe Manufacture of Shoes, of which the following description. inconnection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification.

This invention relates to the manufacture of shoes and has for itsobject to improve turn shoes and facilitate certain steps in the makingof such shoes and this application is a division of my co-pendingapplication, Serial No. 587,944, filed Oct. 19, 1910.

As is well understood," turn shoes are assembled, pulled over, lastedand sewn while they are wrong side out and are then turned to presentthe upper on the outer side and the lining, on the inner side of theshoe. When the uppers of such shoes, as made heretofore, com prise avamp and a tip, or have an ornamental line of stitches to represent thetip line, the location of the tip line is hidden from view by the liningin the pulling-over operation during which the upper is adjusted uponthe last preparatory to being fastened to the sole. When these shoeswere pulled over and lasted by hand the workman was enabled by the senseof feeling", while he held the shoe in his hand, to ascertain theposition of the tip seam and thus to adjust the upper so that the tipseam would occupy in the finished shoe approximately the desiredlocation. The fact that the lining hid the tip seam from View wastherefore of minor importance to him, although considerable skill andjudgment were required to obtain uniform length of tip and position ofthe tip seam in such work. More recently, since these turn shoes havebeen pulled over and lasted by the use of machines, the fact that thetip seam cannot be seen has proven a serious embarrassment, particularlybecause of the timerequired to enable the operator to feel of the shoewhich is supported in the machine.

This invention provides a method for use in the manufacture of turnshoes by the practice of which the operator is enabled to determine thecorrect location of the tip line while the shoe is supported in thepullingover, lasting or other machine, without the Serial No. 9,976.

necessity for feeling of the materials. An important step of this methodconsists in rendering the location of the tip seam or of the tip linestitches apparent on the lining side of the assembled upper materials,so that the operator is provided in the pullingover operation with avisible indication of the location of the tip line on that side of theupper materials which he cannot see, and by adjusting the materials withreference to such indication is assured of the correct location of thetip line when the shoe is finally turned right side out. This step maybe performed in various ways, and conveniently and according to thepreferred practice by extending the tip seam or the tip line stitchesthrough the lining, thereby providing an infallible indication on thelining side of the materials of the position of the tip line of theconcealed upper.

The improved method of this invention, including the relation of thestep above described to other steps of the series, will be more fullyexplained in the following detailed description with reference to theaccompanying drawing and will then be pointed out in the claims.

The drawing is a perspective view of the parts of a turn shoe preparedin accordance with the method of this invention and assembled with thelining outside of the upper for the pulling-over operation.

The usual sole of a turn shoe is shown at 2, the upper at l, and at 5the tip which is joined to the vamp portion of the upper by one or morelines of stitches 6 which constitute the so-called tip seam. At 8 isshown the lining which, in accordance with this invention, has beenprovided with a visible indication of the location of the tip seam ofthe upper. This indication is herein shown as consisting of rows ofstitches 10 made by extending the tip seam stitches 6 through the liningwhen the vamp and the tip are stitched together. Vith the parts thusprepared and assembled as shown in the drawin the operator proceeds toperform the pulling-over operation in the usual with referenceto thesole. This operati'on extending the tip seam or tip line stitchesthrough the lining for the purpose in View is particularly advantageouss1nce the lm 111g stitches are not only readily vis ble to the operatorbut necessarily constitute a permanentanel invariable indication of thelocationof the line ofstitches in the upper.

It should be understood also that except as required-bythe express termsof the claims the inyention is not limited to a series 01 steps carriedout in the precise order in which they are named. V

Havingexplained the nature of the in vention andset forth fully how itmay be practised, What Lelaim as new and desire to secure by LettersPatent of the United States e 1 That improvementin methods ofmakingshoesW-hich consists in assembling an. upper and alining,lstitchingthrough the upper and the liningalong the tip line ofthe upper, bringing;thestitched upper and lininginto; assembled relationto. a sole with'the lining outside ofthe upper, pulling over and lastingthe upper and lining and in the pulling-over and" lasting operaticnslccating the ends of the row of lining stitches in the relation to thesole desired for the ends of the tip line of the upper, securing theupper to the sole, and turning the shoe right side out.

2. That improvement in methods of making shoes which consists inassembling shoe materials comprising an upper and a lining, extendingthrough the lining adjacent to its bottom edges at the tip seam linemeans to serve as visible indications of the tip line of the upper,bringing said materials into assembled relation to a sole with thelining outside ofthe upper pulling over and lastingthe upper and liningand in the pullingover and lastingoperations so locating the upper andlining as to bring the indications of thelocaticn of the tip seam on thelining side of the materialsinto the relation to the sole desiredfor theends of the tip line of the upper, securing the upper to the sole,

and turning the shoe right side out.

In testimony-whereof I have signed my nameto this Specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses. I

EMERSON F. WY I Vitnesses: i

LI MfKmnn, W. J. GILLETTE.

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